A polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea, sparking concern about the disease's spread in a country with low vaccination rates, health officials said. Poliovirus, most often spread ...

Papua New Guinea is experiencing a polio outbreak that has infected at least two children, according to health authorities who called for an immediate vaccination campaign. The country of nearly ...

Sydney: A polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea, sparking concern about the disease's spread in a country with low vaccination rates, health officials said. Poliovirus, most often ...

For instance, in Morobe Province, the coverage for the third dose of the oral polio vaccine (OPV3) was just 44% in 2024.

Less than half of the country's population are immunised against polio, a highly infectious disease The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for ...

Two children have been diagnosed with polio in PNG. It's the first outbreak in the country since 2018, when an outbreak was eradicated the same year. The World Health Organization (WHO ...

May 16 (UPI) --The Papua New Guinea National Department of Health announced early Friday that a polio outbreak has struck there. The nation's government said it is "stepping up its response after ...

In the 1950s and ‘60s Montana was among the leaders in the war against polio and nearly 4,000 Montana children participated in a 1954 field trial of the Salk polio vaccine that became known as ...

A polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea, sparking concern about the disease’s spread in a country with low vaccination rates, health officials said. Papua New Guinea was certified ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday that polio was detected in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from a wastewater sample in the city of Lae and an environmental sample in the nation's ...

Measles, rubella, polio and diphtheria—once ubiquitous, devastating and deeply feared—have been virtually eliminated from the U.S. for decades. Entire generations have barely encountered these ...